Chapter 6

Rin stopped by at Sharky's on his way home. He walked in, facing an almost empty pub, with only a few people sitting here and there.

"Well good morning loverboy," Seijuro greeted him, sitting at the bar with what seemed a cup of coffee.

"Morning," Rin scoffed, sitting next to him. "I left my files here, right?"

"Yes. I figured you would come to pick them up sooner or later, as you were busy with your friend. Pardon, good friend."

Rin raised an eyebrow at the obvious provocation: "Just give me the files."

Seijuro tch'ed, getting behind the bar and throwing the files in front of Rin: "Your friend okay?"

"Yes, why?"

"He sure seemed wasted as hell last night."

"Yeah…I took care of him," Rin stood up, taking everything he had left the previous night.

"Oh I bet you did," he chuckled. "I have a feeling you've been taking care of him for some time already."

"Just…shut up Mikoshiba," Rin gave him a look and stormed out.

This was the first real date with Haru and Rin was nervous. He was gripping-the-wheel-biting-his-lip with a tinge of a weird feeling in his stomach nervous. Gazing back and forth from Haruka and the road, he tried to somehow block his thoughts of every possible bad scenario playing before his eyes, but he was doing a pretty bad job.

Haruka, on the other hand, seemed as calm as ever. Once again, as always, Rin wasn't able to read him. But that's, he thought, the interesting part.

"Where are we going?" Haruka spoke, glaring through the window.

"A nice restaurant. I want to take you out for a dinner."

The more or less (more in Rin's case) awkward silence settled between the pair for the rest of the ride.

Haruka patiently waited while Rin was checking in before following him into the mildly-sized hall.

Their table was on the left side from the entrance, in the upper corner of the room. All of the tables were rectangular, painted black with black table cloth and golden covering on top. On each table there was a slim vase with black rose and a small golden candle placed next to it. The chairs matched the tables, with soft fabric covering the cushions.

Lights in the room were slightly dimmed, classical music playing quietly in the background and murmurs from other people could be heard together with the clanking of the dishes.

"Like it?"

"Looks expensive."

Rin only chuckled.

Rin was amused the whole night, firstly by Haruka's decision to something besides fish, or even better, telling Rin to order for him whatever meal he was going to order.

The other entertaining sight was watching Haruka drinking wine without any hesitation, and oh boy, he got more talkative after a few glasses.

They got more comfortable as time passed and the little land had long burned out. Now Rin was leaning onto his palm, gazing at Haruka who was playing with his almost empty glass of wine. Rin smirked at the situation, at the boy whom the effect of alcohol loosened his grip on and he was now quiet again.

So Rin decided it would be fun to tease by firstly brushing their knees. Haruka immediately looked up at the smirking redhead who continued to rub his leg against his own. He eyed him carefully, being cautious not to show how good it felt, especially when Rin's leg reached the inner side of his ankles and began climbing dangerously high.

"Rin, we are in public," he squeezed out.

Rin only scoffed, not even considering stopping: "You know, I can completely accidentally drop something under the table and it would take me minutes and minutes to find it."

"Don't even think about it."

"We both know you want—" suddenly Rin's leg jerked up, his knee hitting the bottom of the table.

He mouthed the curse and the bleeping melody of his phone that had interrupted such a precious moment. He took the thing out of his pocket, frowning before rejecting the call and completely turning the annoying device off.

Haruka was curious, oh he was, but he decided not to pry in, for now at least, as look on Rin's face was still somewhat terrifying.

"Sorry," he muttered. "This thing will be flying through the car's window tonight. Now, where were we?"

"Don't worry about it," Haruka smiled. "And Rin?"

"Yes?"

"Don't even think about it."

Haruka had managed to surprise Rin by suggesting a walk. They got out of the safety of the warm restaurant and were greeted by the cool November breeze. Rin inwardly smiled at the way Haruka puffed his hair out of his eyes and then continued playing with his breath.

He hasn't changed one bit.

Upon reaching the ocean the wind grew cooler, now blowing in stronger strokes every few minutes. Haruka tightened his scarf, glancing at Rin whose eyes were pointed somewhere ahead, in the distance.

"It's cold outside," Haruka decided to break the silence even though he enjoyed it, thinking how Rin was maybe a bit too quiet.

"Well, it is November. I would be disappointed otherwise," Rin slightly chuckled.

He hesitated for a moment, which Haruka had noticed, before taking his hand out of his pocket and reached for Haruka's. Haruka gladly accepted it, interlacing their fingers and enjoying the warmth of Rin's hand.

"Do you want to go back?" Rin quietly asked.

"No. I'm fine with just us alone here."

"Are you trying to tell me something?" he averted his gaze at the young man next to him, observing his facial expression.

Haruka remained silent, looking at the ground and their feet moving together.

Rin sighed at the lack of response feeling how Haruka's hand was suddenly squeezing his own more.

"It's just that…you are finally back. The perky Rin, the Rin I knew. And I can't help but notice it. Maybe I'm selfish but I don't want to let you go and – "

Rin stopped walking, tugging at Haruka's hand and making Haruka look at him. He sighed, looking down before shaking his head and pulling Haruka into his arms.

"It's because of you," he whispered, holding Haruka tighter. "It's because of you that I'm myself again and I don't want to make another mistake and lose what's left of me."

Haruka pushed him back only a little, just to be able to see his face, to see the reaction and because Rin was the only one who was ever able to see this side of him.

"I really missed you," Haruka spoke, sounding upset and startled, his wide eyes confirming it and heart that was beating as if it was going to jump out of his chest was not giving him a break either. "And now I have you here. And I've never felt like this before because Rin I –" and this was why he hated him.

He dared, he dared to interrupt him, to shut him up in the last moment so that he didn't have to bear the weight of those words on his shoulders.

Because Rin cupped his cheeks and pressed their lips together leaving Haruka only one option: to give in, slowly close his eyes and accept the kiss. All of Haruka's attempts to protest utterly failed one after another as he melted in warmth of Rin's body.

Rin was fire, he always was. Always the one stirring up emotions in Haruka, making him go crazy and waking the same fire inside of him. Now he found himself getting calmer and calmer as their lips moved together, as if Rin was dragging out that sudden rush of feelings out.

This time, Haruka thought, he would let him get away with it. Because Rin knew, he was sure of it.

"Well, this was a lovely night," Rin grinned while Haruka was unlocking the door to his apartment.

"Yes," Haruka smiled. "Do you…do you want to stay over?"

"Always, but not tonight," he gave him a sheepish smile expecting that Haruka would get the hint and accept his unspoken apology.

"Maybe you're right," Haruka agreed.

"So," Rin leaned in and kissed him on the forehead, "sleep well," before giving him a tiny smile and turning away, heading towards the stairs.

"Rin," Haruka managed to stop him by tugging at his sleeve. "Are we now together?"

"Guess," Rin smirked as he gently traced Haruka's lips with his thumb before slightly chuckling and finally disappearing.

A/N: right, i apologize for taking so long to update. this chapter gave me so much pain, i ended up rewriting it 4 times. but now that it's over and done, i am proud to say that i pretty much believe how my writers blockage is finally completely gone and i feel super hyped for writing :3 so more rinharu stuff coming this weekend.

thank you for your continued support, means really a lot (heart) and that's why i hope i didn't disappoint you with this shitty chapter t.t gomen :c

and i totally forgot what i was going to say in this a/n, so i'll just go with the usual:

stay lovely ~

(holy shit i just remembered...epiSODE 12 OKAY. do i even need to say how we got such a great end and we were finally freed from all that angst. i'm just fsjkfgafglaflk. bby rin is happy again and all of them are together now and that's...that's all i needed. kay, jaxeh out.)